Tropical limit of matrix solitons and entwining Yang-Baxter maps

Autor: Dimakis, Aristophanes, Müller-Hoissen, Folkert
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-020-01322-9
Popis: We consider a matrix refactorization problem, i.e., a "Lax representation", for the Yang-Baxter map that originated as the map of polarizations from the "pure" 2-soliton solution of a matrix KP equation. Using the Lax matrix and its inverse, a related refactorization problem determines another map, which is not a solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, but satisfies a mixed version of the Yang-Baxter equation together with the Yang-Baxter map. Such maps have been called "entwining Yang-Baxter maps" in recent work. In fact, the map of polarizations obtained from a pure 2-soliton solution of a matrix KP equation, and already for the matrix KdV reduction, is NOT in general a Yang-Baxter map, but it is described by one of the two maps or their inverses. We clarify why the weaker version of the Yang-Baxter equation holds, by exploring the pure 3-soliton solution in the "tropical limit", where the 3-soliton interaction decomposes into 2-soliton interactions. Here this is elaborated for pure soliton solutions, generated via a binary Darboux transformation, of matrix generalizations of the two-dimensional Toda lattice equation, where we meet the same entwining Yang-Baxter maps as in the KP case, indicating a kind of universality.
Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures, second version: two more references, corrections of typos in Appendix B, Remark B.3 added, third version: minor amendments. To appear in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Databáze: arXiv